Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Speaking Skills”
When you undertake speaking, training or presenting, your voice is your number one tool. It is the instrument that you use to get your message across and like any other profession or task, it is import that you maintain and treat that equipment properly. Here are a couple of tips to keep you voice in peek condition Warm up. You …
Ellen Langer is a psychologist who has researched, written and had great impact in the area of mindfulness. Her work has demonstrated the profound impact of being more mindful and how increasing our own mindful behavior can result in increased health, wellbeing, confidence and competence. She is famous for saying “Our limits are of our own making”. In relation to …
Aristotle, the Greek Philosopher and one of the fathers of public speaking suggested that all speakers must have “Pathos” when they present. Pathos is the emotion and passion with which the presenter speaks Passion is one of the key ingredients in public speaking and presentation skills. It will help make your message stick, help you connect with your audience and …
I have just been reading an on-line article on how to create your self improvement plan and noticed that the 5 step process applies similarly to a plan that you can use to improve your public speaking and presentation skills. The full article, written by Eduard Ezeanu can be found at http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-create-your-self-improvement-plan/ Basically the steps are: 1 Start by recognising the limits. …
One of things that I notice in public speaking and presentation skills is that people, including me, focus on the negatives and the “what went wrong” aspect of their speeches. In Chip and Dan Heaths book Switch – How To Change Things When Change is Hard, they talk about the many hours that are spent analysing what went wrong and …
Stage fright, nerves, performance anxiety, whatever you want to call it – is a reality for many situations and one that most people will experience at some stage in their life as they take on challenges. It may be on the sporting big stage, performing, your wedding ceremony, a conference presentation or simply undertaking public speaking. I am not a …
